Shelagh Carter
Director
MB - Manitoba District Council
Shelagh Carter is a Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio as an Actress and Director, and a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre's Directors Lab in Toronto. As a director, Shelagh has created work for over fifteen years. Night Travellers, her third short film, was a National Screen Institute Drama Prize winner in 2007. Her award winning 35 mm short, One Night, filmed as part of the Canadian Film Centre's Short Dramatic Film 2009 series, screened at several international film festivals. She has also won world festival recognition with her experimental narrative short films Canoe, Rifting/Blue and Is It My Turn. Shelagh's first feature film called Passionflower, the story of Sarah, an 11-year- old girl, forcing her family to come to terms with her mother's increasing mental instability, has earned film festival attention and honors. Her indie feature, Before Anything You Say, an innovative drama based on a true story, has won International nominations and awards, most recently Best Manitoba Director 2018 by the DGC. Her third feature film Into Invisible Light has been honoured with several awards and nominations, recently winning the Directors’ Choice Independent Spirit Award at the Sedona International Film Festival 2020. She is an alumna of Women in the Directors Chair and a Duel Citizen of the USA and Canada.
*DGC Credits only.
Missing and Alone
TV Movie 2021, Director
Into Invisible Light
Feature 2017, Director
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